Back when I was in art school, (how long ago will remain a mystery) I worked in the wonderful world of customer service. Both as a front end manager at a grocery chain and at the front desk of a high end hotel.
I hated both jobs, at first.
Congratulations from all of us at New City Media to the Roanoke Valley SPCA. Together we launched their newly designed site on June 1st. They’ve been great to work with and we enjoyed working on the site as we’re all animal lovers and almost everyone here at NCM owns at least a cat or dog. […]
New City Media will have its work cited in the forthcoming Graphis Design Journal: Americas, a focused sampling of the best design in America, organized regionally. National Geographic Magazine’s WildCam Africa continues to garner such accolades and has been very well received by the publisher’s readers. This project will mark New City Media’s first […]
Launch the site
As North America observes the 400th anniversary of the 1607 Jamestown colony, National Geographic Magazine online and New City Media have created an engaging website that will show the user the perspectives of the English settlers as well as the local Indians. Split into two equal parts with detailed maps, intriguing video […]
If I had to pick the two most excruciating experiences I have had online, they would be hands down: poor use of music on websites and trying to do anything on IKEA’s site.
While they haven’t fixed the usability of their main site yet - they did do a interactive presentation that promotes their kitchen products […]
Here is a very well put together article on DVD cover design. I don’t often site articles on design, but this one hits home both as a my being a dad and a designer who takes pride in the impact factor of a design. Good read.
Very interesting eye-tracking study:
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070312ruel/